Pencil-holder.



No. 789,713. PATENTED MAY 16, 1905. A. BROWN.

PENCIL HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. a, 1904.

lvitmaoow NITED STATES Patented May 16, 1905.

PATENT OEEicE.

PENCIL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,713, dated May 16,1905.

Application filed February 8, 1904. Serial No. 192,555.

2'0 a, w/wm/ it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS BROWN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hardinsburg, in the county of Breckenridge and State ofKentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPencil-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pencil-holders, and particularly to that classwherein the pencil is held in such a manner as to protect the pointthereof.

The object of my invention is to provide a pencil-holder which may beeasily and quickly attached to any convenient part of a garment and onewhich is adapted for holding pencils of diverse diameters and differentlengths.

Another object of my invention is to provide a pencil-holder consistingof two sockets held together by an elastic band or coiled steel spring.One of the sockets is adapted to receive the head of a pencil and ,isprovided with a pin by which it may be secured to a garment. The otheris cone or conical shaped and is adapted to receive the point of thepencil and to act as a protector therefor.

\Vith these objects in view and such others as may hereinafter appear myinvention consists in the particular construction of the various partsand in the novel manner of combination and arrangement of said parts,all of which will be more fully described, and specifically pointed outin the appended claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a viewin side elevation of my improved holder complete, illustrating the samewith a pencil held therein.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail View of the headsocket. Fig. 3 is anenlarged detail view of the point-socket. Fig. 4 is a detail view of thecoiled steel wire which connects the sockets. Fig. 5 illustrates anelastic band which may also be used for connecting the sockets.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 1 represents a socket consistingof a tubular section made of a continuous coil of steel wire, the upperend of which is provided with a loop 2, smaller in diameter than thebody or tubular section, and is turned, as shown, in order to provide aspring for the downwardly-projecting pin 4:. The lower end of thetubular section terminates in a downwardly-projecting arm 5, parallelwith the pin 4. This arm is twined upon itself so as to form an eye 6(the object of which will be hereinafter explained) and is provided uponits free end with a hook 7, adapted to engage the pin 4 after the holderhas been secured or attached to a garment.

Hooked or otherwise secured in the eye 6 is one end of the coiledsteel-wire spring 8, the other end of which is hooked in the eye 9formed upon the cone or conical shaped socket 10, or, if desired, thesteel-wire spring may be dispensed with and the sockets connected by anelastic band 11, which will perform the same function and will be founda convenient substitute. that when the head of a pencil is placed in thesocket 1 and the point in the socket 10 the spring 8 or elastic band 11,having the tendency to draw the two sockets together, will clamp thepencil tightly in the holder and prevent any possibility of it becominglost; also, that the socket 1O acts as a protector for the point.

Having thus described the various features of my invention, what I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A holder of the character described,comprising a pair ofsocket-pieces having means to engage the opposite ends of a pencil orthe like, one of said socket-pieces being further provided with meansfor attaching it to a garment or the like, and a spring connecting thesaid socket-pieces and drawing them toward each other, to retain apencil or the like between them, substantially as described.

2. A holder of the character described, comprising two sockets havingmeans respectively to engage the opposite ends of a pencil or the like,a coil-spring connecting said sockets, and a pin for attaching one ofsaid sockets to a garment or the like, substantially as described.

3. A pencil-holder comprising two elastically-connected sockets, onebeing of conical form to receive the pointed end of a pencil and theother being of cylindrical form to receive the opposite end of thepencil, said cylindrical socket having one of its ends provided with astop to limit the movement of It will be readily seen the penciltherein, and means for attaching one of said sockets to a garment or thelike, substantially as described.

42. A pencil-holder, comprising tWo sockets, one being formed of asingle piece of Wire bent to form a conical-shaped coil With an eye atone end, and the other being formed of a single piece of Wire bent toform a cylindrical-shaped coil, a stop at one end of the latter, anattaching-pin, a hook to receive said pin and an eye, and an elasticconnection between the eyes of said sockets for holding the latter uponthe opposite ends of a pencil or the like, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the invention above set forth 1 aifix mysignature in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

AUGUSTUS BROWN.

Witnesses:

A. M. PULLIAM, J. H. LENNON.

